This site contains a few pieces that use ‘swear’ words or relate to sex or other ‘adult themes’.

Jackson

Writer. Poet. Editor.

  • Grandfather

    Your faded black trousers look like charred treetrunks. Your eyes are like shy leaves. Above them floats your white hair, like a vague afternoon moon. I put my hand on yours: rough bark. You breathe slowly: wind in dry branches. You say something: a crow or a saw. You’re a still man in a stirred-up… Read more

  • The emptied bridge

    This year I won’t stand under the railway bridge when the trains are going across, she said, even though it thrills me so, the adrenaline secret of the huge metal body roaring above me. This year I won’t, won’t, she said, because every time I do it, the thrill is a little smaller, the thrumming… Read more

  • yoga

    yoga, said the teacher, translating a sutra,      is the mind      focused      on one      thing      alone fingers on keys eyes on screen      thoughts      in the breaths      that make a      thing      a poem First published in foam:e Read more

  • 2015 publications

    List of poems published in 2015. Australian Poetry Journal, Plumwood Mountain, The School Magazine, Writ Poetry Review, Tamba, Poetry for Public Transport, Live Poets at Don Bank, Poetry Matters, Creatrix, Department of Poetry, Positive Words, Uneven Floor Read more

  • clothes on

    with      I don’t know how      to talk to you my clothes on First published in foam:e Read more

  • really

    I dreamed I had a stillborn baby and it was a baby girl but she was just a lump of flesh really and my mother had organised her into a box with an address label something like To Death 15 Death Avenue Somewhere First published in foam:e Read more